so which one is robust, bright, and beams far, don't use too much batt life

and is good as a weapon in self defence

 

mine is ok, but I don't have experience of other models to compare it against. It does seem to meet your requirements though.

 

Thats the trade off, brightness v battery life.

 

I bought one of these

Polimil Factory Shop Cyba-Lite N16 Xenon Rechargable Torch £29.39

very happy with it.

 

Matteeboy announced purchase of an LED torch a few months ago, if someone wants to search for threads started by him.

 

That's where I came across mine

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...nt-blokes.html

 

Any one mention Lumicycle, their HID is very good, good battery life too...

 

Led Lenser
Ledco : Lighting instruments for professionals

 

Well i asked for a price range but heard nowt, brightstar hid's are the best for vfm and are usually on ebay.

I have lumi's but their hid's are imo overpriced, good kits though im waiting for led to get a whole lot better, if you can find them on the net ay-up led's are meant to be very good.

 

I can't see anything thats bright enough to be used in self-defence as having a great battery life really - I've seen lots of torches that dazzle, but nothing that has the same blinding effect as a Surefire does.

Put it this way - they are honestly painful to look at when your in bright sunlight; against someone who's vision has adapted to street lighting or pitch blackness - they won't see anything for a good 5 to 10 minutes once they've had a blast of a Surefire with even the 65 lumen lamp assembly; you can go all the way upto a 200 lumen assembly on one of their "pocket" torches if you want to pay for it.

As for their robustness, I don't know anyone who's managed to break one; and I'm talking about a bunch of ape like Squaddies who can break almost anything including tanks

 

one word fella. TESCO...

£12, doubles up as a weapon as its aluminium casing ensures blood wipes away hassle free

 

Forget LED flashlights, what you need is a HID torch like this one:

6000K 35W 3000Lum HID Flashlight Hand Torch Searchlight - eBay (item 130193068721 end time Jan-31-08 19:00:00 PST)